Absolute Uncertainty (Conversation Pieces) (Conversation Pieces)

Absolute Uncertainty collects seven stories three of them new by Lucy Sussex, as well as an interview conducted by Maureen Kincaid Speller. In these stories, a fashionista becomes obsessed with the uncanny resemblance of the dazzling, eccentric Lady Sanspareille to the seventeenth-century Duchess of Newcastle; a young man loses his virginity in more than one sense of the word; an older writer shares her insight with Philip K. Dick, who really needs it; and in Biocultural Studies 101, a class examines moral ambiguities and the limits of biography in the case of Werner Heisenberg, ''a real slippery customer,'' via a high-tech ''interactive template.''